Why is AI trust so much higher in China (87%) than the US (32%)? [pdf](edelman.com)
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Why is AI trust so much higher in China (87%) than the US (32%)? [pdf]
https://www.edelman.com/sites/g/files/aatuss191/files/2025-11/2025%20Edelman%20Trust%20Barometer%20Flash%20Poll%20Trust%20and%20Artificial%20Intelligence%20at%20a%20Crossroads%201.pdf
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I don’t know about China, but in The USA everyone knows that the shareholders (and political shareholders) expect results at the expense of the public.
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PRC workforce % of service/knowledge industry not huge, there's a fuckload of undereducated blue collar aunties and uncles where AI legitimately improves their QoL and allows country bumpkins to participate in society/economy. There's still areas of huge disruption (creative), but last1 200 years of Chinese history basically learned lesson in cost of tech stagnation. Also high home ownership rate, high savings rate... low debt/student loans... i.e. there isn't entire paycheck to paycheck tertiary class who goes into collection once they realize their entire lifetime contribution to the workforce is worth about a few $1000 in compute credits. Displacement fears is going to hit them... just not yet.
They can't complain.
Maybe because the system in China has been lifting 100s of millions out of poverty for the last 40 years, whereas the neoliberal corporate rule in the US has been tanking the middle and working class for the same period.
Now people are supposed to trust the same corporations that enshittified everything?
Now people are supposed to trust the same corporations that enshittified everything?
I think this. China is still in the optimist mode - life is still getting better, tech is here to improve daily life. In the US, everyone is skeptical of everything. Trust is low.
Yeah there's definitely something to this. Do you think it's mainly a trust issue? Is it also hard to imagine potential benefits in areas like Health/Education vs quite easy to imagine risks such as jobs displacement? Do you think people would be more focussed on potential benefits if the trust was there?
lifting them straight to 996
So overworked like the West but their lives actually improving?
Because china is father of AI